Ordinary diners who take part in our annual survey each spring review restaurants and leave their feedback, but we also ask them to score restaurants from 1-5 on food, service and ambience. Harden’s then uses an average of these scores and measures them against other establishments in the same price bracket to arrive at the ratings published in the guide and online.

Snippets from some of your feedback may end up in the overall Harden’s review, noticeably they appear in “double quotation marks”. The rest of our pithy, bite-sized restaurant summaries are compiled by analysing the survey data and extracting recurring themes, looking at whether or not a venue was nominated in any of our categories – like ‘favourite’ or ‘most overpriced’ – and, of course, looking at the ratings for food, service and ambience.

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All reviews are compiled from survey comments and ratings, without any regard for our own personal opinions, except in cases where restaurants are too new to have been included in the survey. If you want the editors’ view on new restaurants in London you can find them in our Editors’ Review section.

London Kensington And Chelsea Restaurant Guide

Harden's Guides have been compiling reviews of the best restaurants in Kensington And Chelsea since 1998.

Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in London Kensington And Chelsea

Hardens guides have spent 25 years compiling reviews of the best Kensington And Chelsea restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 17 restaurants in Kensington And Chelsea and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Kensington And Chelsea restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.

With an interior aiming to ‘embody chic and vintage glamour’, this new hotel dining room in Belgravia delivers a traditional Italian menu, under chef Claudio Covino – only limited feedback so far, but all positive.

Located at the heart of Kensington and Chelsea,The Light of India restaurant is a classy and elegant Indian restaurant established in 1984. Our culinary philosophy is deceptively simple. We celebrate the ver...

Ritorno celebrates the elegant lifestyle of Milan where gathering to enjoy great food, complemented by fine wines and cocktails in chic yet informal surroundings, is central to the city's way of life.
On the perennially fashionable King's Road in Chelsea, Ritorno takes ...

Meejana in Earls Court (near South Kensington) is a discrete hidden gem of a Lebanese Restaurant. A relative newcomer on the West London dining scene, Meejana is a sister restaurant to the original site in Weybridge which opened in 2007.
Meejana offers the widest select...

At Hippo Inns we want to ensure our pubs are one of a kind within the neighbourhood. Just a short stroll from Ladbroke Grove station and you’ll arrive at The Eagle. Spread over two floors, downstairs you’ll find a classic, relaxed pub complete with wood fire and sp...

With very little fanfare, this new neighbourhood restaurant opened in Notting Hill during the summer of 2018. It's the first restaurant from James Gummer, former front of house at The Wolseley. With that pedigree, we're expecting superb hospitality alongside the "seasonal, homemade food".

“Excellent Levantine cuisine at very reasonable prices” win consistent praise for this middle eastern newcomer. Some fans “are puzzled at by the decor choices” but for a “cheap and cheerful” option “convenient to South Kensington and the museums” it fits the bill.

“An on-site bakery ensures everything is super-fresh” at this “lovely, light and bright location” near the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital: “great coffees, cakes and French-styles brunches”. They must be doing something right as in mid 2017 they launched new stores on the King’s Road and in Kensington.

Clare Smyth, former ‘chef patron’ at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay – and the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars – chose this well-known site (previously Notting Hill Kitchen, RIP, and once the site of the original Leith’s) to launch her first solo venture in summer 2017.